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THE GIDDINGS STAR
Friday, August 9, 1940
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THE GIDDINGS STAR POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Published every Friday by
THE GIDDINGS PRINTING CO.
Giddings, Texas
P. O. Box 427
Northrup
THEO, A. PREUSSER, Editor
ALBERT B NIERTSCHIN, Bus. Mgr.
Entered as second-class matter April
5th 1940, at the Post Office at Giddings.
Texas, under the Act of Congress of
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The Star is authorized to announce
the following as candidates in the De-
moeratie Party.
For Senator, 14th Senatorial District:
.1. ALTON YORK
For District Judge:
21st District
JOHN TATE
For District Attorney:
21stDistrict
LESLIE D. WILLIAMS
For County Judge:
JOHN S. SIMMANG
For Tax Assessor and Collector:
WM E. SCHNEIDER
For District Clerk, Lee County
A. W. SIEGMUND
For County Clerk:
W. E. MARBURGER
For Sheriff:
JOHN J. BURTTSCHELL
For County Attorney:
M. F. KIEKE
For County Treasurer:
ERNST MOERBE
For Commissioner. Precinct 1:
HERMAN H. MARBURGER, JR.,
For Commissioner, Precinct 2:
GERHARD G. ZOCH
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Dime Box
Mr. Monroe Schatte from Pfluger-
ville was home with his parents Mr.
and Mrs. Ed. Schatte Sunday
Mr and Mrs. Johnnie Noack and Isi-
dor Mitschke and wife drove up Fri-
day to spend the week end with their
respective parents. While here they
also attended the christening of the
Carl Mikchke infant.
Mr. John K rause and children came
very near having a serious accident
Sunday when the steering rod on their
car broke as they were returning from
church. 2 fence posts is all that kept
them from going right into a tree.
Miss Mary-Beth Paulick returned to
| Austin Sunday night after a stay of
| several days with her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Miertschin an
family were Winchester visitors Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. H. I" Weiser and fa-
mily took dinner Sunday with Mr.
| and Mrs. C. T. Kasper at Winchester
Mr Travis Bargainer of Port Ar-
thur came up Sunday to accompany
Mrs. Bargainer and daughter home
after an extended visit! of several
months with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. C. T. Kasper
Carmine News
In last week's news, an error has
been made. The Catholic barbecue
was dated incorrect. It was stated
that it will be held on August 5th,
will be on August 11th.
Mr. J. L. Kocurek and daughters 1
Josephine and Elenora spent a few
days in Tavlor
Misses Lillian Krenek. LaVerne
Everett, Mr. David Kornegay and
brother spent Tuesday night in Gid-
dings,
Mr. Louis Balcar, Edward and
Johnnie Krenek and Jodie Balear at-
tendee! the dance in Taylor Tuesday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E Krenek and fa-
mily spent Wednesday in Cameron.
Miss Mattie Everett, is recovering
nicely after being operated in Temple.
Mr. W. M. Schmidt left Thursday
afternoon for Temple.
Miss Chubby Goodson broke her
leg last Tuesday afternoon and was
taken to Brenham to the hospital and
returned home Saturday
A bridge party was given by Mrs.
W. Standifer alst Friday afternoon at
her home.
Mr. Dillard A Meyer of Smithville
spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Balear
Mr. Mike Gruetzner of Giddings
spent Saturday here.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Williams and
family returned home Friday after
spending a few days with his grand-
pa rents
Mr. Edward “Sonny" Kuchera Jr.,
•f Bryan spent the week-end at home
with his parents.
Miss Virginia Bridges of San Mar-
cos and Mr. Curtis Bridges of Gid-
dings spent the week-end at home
with her parents,
Mr. Albert Kubena and one of his
boy friends of San Marcos spent the
week-end at home.
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Meyer and fa-
mily of Smithville spent Saturday
mith Mr. and Mrs. V. Balcar and Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Balcar.
Mr and Mrs Jodie Maresh of Hous-
ton spent Sunday with Mrs. Adolph
Maresh and Henry.
Mrs. Tula Brown and mother of
Louisiana spent Sunday here.
Miss Francis Krupa of Sen Marcos
spent the week-end at home.
Mr. Elo Ellrich celebrated his na-
till day Sadurday night with a num-
ber of friends and relatives present
for the occasion.
5 Mrs. Willie Kuhn and daughters
were Wallis visitors Sunday.
5 Mrs. Alex Weyand, Mrs. George
Joiners and Carleen Tally of Austin
visited here several days with friends
and relatives.
Guests in the Max Weyand home |
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Will Tho-
mas of Wallis and Mrs. Will Kolatt
of LaGrange.
5 Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Weyand
are visiting in Waco.
5 Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hoppe and
daughter and Mrs. Bishop Blackburn
spent Sunday in Houston.
• Mr. Alf. Etzel, Mrs. Edgar Sie-
bel and Mrs. Harold Weyand were
Galveston visitors Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Noak and
daughter spent Sunday in Houston.
Miss Lillie Siebel of Schulenburg
spent the week-end here with home
folks.
Gerh. Brunotte of Houston spent
the week-end with his parents Rev.
and Mrs. H. Brunotte.
Elvis .Taster of Houston spent Sun-
day here.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schroeder and
son of Giddings spent Sunday here.
Mrs. Alfred Hoppe spent Monday
in Houston.
Mr. Chas. WVukasch and daughter
Clara accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Chua. Koenning, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Moerbe of Warda und Mrs. Gus Beh-
rens of Giddings attended the Christ-
ening of the Eddie Koenning infant at
Winchester Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dunk went on a
fishing thip to Winchester Saturday,
and they really brought home the
"fish" not just the story
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Teinert News
Elmer and Alice Teinert visited n
the Theo. Teinerti home Sunday ever-
ing.
Willie, Norbert and Hermine Tri
nert spent Sunday afternoon in the
Ed. Durrenberger home.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schatte and
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Lincoln News
Visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Symmank Sunday were:
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schuhmann and
sous. Misses Minnie and Ella Neitsch
all of Giddings.
Miss Alta Marie Plac ke of Gid-
dings was a Lincoln visitor last Wed-
nesday.
Rev. Ed. McCleskey was a guest in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Placke
Sunday,
Mrs. L. A. Cook of Chilton and Mrs.
I. W Dodson of Lexington visited
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herm.
Marburger Sr. Monday
R. F. Placke was a business visitor
in Austin last Thursday,
Dick Kissman and Bob Placke where
in Brenham Tuesday on business.
FSA Provides Modern Camps For Cotton Pickers
Molern laundry tubs and bathhouses 1
comfortable cottages for a few and
one room shelters for the many, are
opening a new road to health and
comfort this year as the 70,000 fami-
lies of migratory laborers in Texas
start their annual cotton-picking cara-
van from the Rio Grande to the Red
River. Photographs above show scenes
in one of the four labor camps already
opened in Texas by the Farm Security
Administration, contrasted with (low-
er right) the typical tent shelter of
a migratory labor family where FSA
jamps »re not available.
/ The camps now open will provide
quarters for some 1,500 families, and
three more camps are being construct-
ed, but all of them combined will
| shelter less than one in 25 of Texas'
migrants. The farthest camp north
will be at Princeton, Collin County,
for which contract has recently been
let. The four now in operation are at
Weslaco, Raymondville, Robstown and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Mit-
schke of Houston visited in the J. C. |
Schatte and Henry Bamsch homes
Sinton, anl contracts have been let
for Crystal City and Harlingen.
Ramshackle shelters like that shown
Sunday and Monday.
above are creating a health menace
Those spending Sunday afternoon from one end of the state to the other,
with J. C. Schatte and family were: power is also cutting down the earning
FSA officials say, as hundreds of such
shacks are crowded together on vacant
lots in towns or along country roads
and ditches. Occupants of these jungle
camps include many farmers who were
forced off the land by depression and
by the .trend toward large-scale, mech-
anized operations. Many others have
been forced out of industrial jobs in
towns and cities.
C. M. Evans, Dallas, regional direc-
tor of FSA, said that two million
people moved to farms in the United
States during the five year period
ending with 1935, in spite of the fact
that farm economists warned there
were alrealy "too many farmers."
"The present European War is
making it harder not only for these
new farm families, but for all other
farm families, to make a living,”
Evans said.
"The war is further reducing for-
eign markets and driving still lower
the farmer's cash income. The same
decrease in foreign demanl which is
cutting down the farmer's earning
power of American industry, making
it questionable whether industry will
absorb any part at all of the farmers
who may be unable to earn a living
on the land."
Evans said that the two million fa-
milies who came to the land in the five
years ending with 1935 show what is
likely to happen on a still larger
scale during the next few years, and
beyond that indefinitely as long as
the troubled condition of the world
limits the foreign trade which has in
the past furnished such a vital outlet
for industry.
One of FSA’s tasks, he said, is “to
point the way to profitable activities
for little farmers who can be salvaged
from the wreck of our old farming
system or our old industrial system.
This presents a challenge to our lea-
dership which will pay enormous di-
vidends Is successfully answered and
will engulf us in a complexity of so-
cial and economic difficulties if we
fail."
Camps for migrant laborers, like
those shown in the above photo, are
merely a move to assist this class
while they are linding a road back
to permanent employment. FSA’s chief
task, Evans said, is to remedy condi-
tions back on the farms where most
of the (migrants originate, and to
which it is hoped that they may be
returned.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Prellop, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Fritsche and families of
Lincoln, Mr, and Mrs. Herbert Wieder
of Winchester, Mr. and Mrs. Hilton
Wieder and son, Mr. am) Mrs Henry
Schatte and family of Houston and |
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Mr. and Mrs. Otto Teinert and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Teinert spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. during
Herman Zoch and family at Concord.
fense Masks and a register of the
names of these workers will be main-
tained for instant use. Drought ex-
pressed the hope that a substantial
number of WPA workers will be
placed in private defense industries
G. A. DISMUKES LAID TO REST
AT KNOBBS
the next twelve months.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Teinert vi-
alted her parents Mr. and Mrs. John
Krause and family Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lehmann and
son of Austin are visiting their parents
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wieder and Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Lehmann of Warda
for several days.
We are glad to report Miss Louise
Bamsch back from the hospital and
much improved.
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WPA PARTICIPATES IN
NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAN
Austin.—WPA participation in the
program of national defense was
Defense projects will receive prior-
its over other WPA activities, district
managers were told, and it was point-
ed out that possibilities for WPA
work in connection with national de-
fense is noti limited to the construction
and ingineering fields.
“National procedures are now being
prepared for the training of selected
WPA workers in existing vocational
schools for defense jobs," Minter de-
stressed by State Administrator II.
P. Drought in the July 2 meeting of
WPA officials in San Antonio, it was
reported today by Acting District Ma-
nager Joe F. Minter of the Austin
elared. Others will be assigned for
training in industrial plants where
it is hoped that Jobs will be available
after the training period is completed.
This activity will be sponsored by the
National Defense Council.
district on his return from the con-
ference.
Drought emphasized the necessity
for speed in utilizing the $25,000,000
fund which Congress has made avail-
able to aid in the operation of im-
portant defense projects, certified by
the secretaries of War and Navy.
"We were advised that we can not
wait to see what defense projects come
in later." Minter said. "Those import-
ant projects which come in first will
be placed in operation first."
WPA employemnt rolls will be re-
viewed in this section and throughout
the nation to check the qualifications
of all workers with aptitudes for de-
“Under the national professional
and service program of WPA, research
and statistical workers can be made
immediately available for defense in-
dustries and research proje ts now
operating can be shifted to fill de-
tense needs. Thousands of operators
of power sewing machines can be put
to work manufacturing needed de-
fense materials. If necessary: WPA
sewing rooms will not produce any
articles in competition with private
industry, however."
ULIN
G. A Dismukes of the Knobbs com-
munity passed away in a hospital at
Elgin Friday night August 2nd. Fol-
lowing an accident earlier in the week,
he had been taken to the hospital at
Elgin for treatment.
The deceased had lived in the pre-
sent homeplace for the past 48 years.
During this time he had made many
friends over the entire county. He
could be depended on to work for any
cause that was fir the bekerment of
his community, county, state, or
country. He was respec ted and loved
by all that knew him for his straight-
forwardness in any and all questions
that might arrise. Ills many friends
extend their sympathy to the bereaved
oiK's at this time.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Josie Lee Dismukes: 5 sons, Elvie
and Leo of the Knobbs. Emmett of
Austin, Jewel of Temple and Willie
of Waco: eight daughters, Mrs. C. II.
Sherman, Mrs J. W. Jackson, Mrs.
Ithley Smith, Miss Ethel Dismukes
and Miss Odelia Dismukes all of the
Knobbs community. Mrs. J. C. Daw-
son of Childress, Mrs. I. N. Fagg of
Lawhon Sprinsg and Mrs. Walter
Williams of Bellon: II grandchildren,
7 brothers, T. IL and Ray Dismukes
of the Km bhs. Chester Dismukes of
Blue, John Dismukes of Shreveport,
Knobbs church with Rev. T. H. Holt
of Belton in charge of services and
interment! was made in the Knobbs
cemetery with Phillips-Luckey Co. in
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were William Smith,
Ralph Bostic, William McDavid Dee
McDavid, Maynard Sander, and Jack
Nance,
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The Congerial Card Club
The members of The Congenial Card
Club and a few guests were graciously
entertained with a bridge party on
Tuesday evening by Mrs. Rudy Wei-
gelt, Roses, crepe myrtle and other
seasonal flowers were used for deco-
ration. Mrs. Oliver Sump was award-
ed prize for high score and the travel-
ing prize went to Mrs. Albert Falke.
A delicious congealed salad with all
the trimmings was served to the fol-
lowing guests: Mesdames Oliver
Sump, C. C. Graves, Albert Falke,
Chester Pfeiffer, Erwin Kriegel, Wal-
ter Marburger, Monroe Kasper and
Rudy Namken.
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Natal Day Celebrated
We Print Everyth ing
But Dollar Bills
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Monroe Dismukes of Lexington, Ed.
Dismukes of Dallas and Will Dis-
makes of California, and 3 sisters,
Mrs. H. II. Brown of the Knobbs,
Mrs. Ira Smith of Granger and Mrs.
Hubert Stewart of Roschell.
Funeral services were held Satur-
day afternoon August 3rd from the
Mrs. T. H. Miller entertained with
a dinner Tuesday honoring her father
Mr. G. E. Kelly in his 73rd birthday.
Individual cukes with their lighted
candles formed the lighting of the
dining room. Those who were present
to enjoy the occasion with Mr. Kelly
were Mr. and Mrs. T. II. Miller and
| daughter Mollie Ann, Mr. and Mrs.
G. L. Kelly and two children Gypsy
and Lendy, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Toler,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sikes, and Mr.
A. J. Miller of Mission.
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